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  2. Wiley Post - Wikipedia

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    Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream .

  3. Charles Romley Alder Wright - Wikipedia

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    In 1892, Wright was the first to report the existence of the stoichiometric intermetallic compound AlSb (aluminium antimonide), [4] [14] which is now recognized as a compound semiconductor with potential use in high-frequency, low-power consumption microelectronics applications, as well as gamma radiation detection.

  4. List of last words - Wikipedia

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    — Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty (26 December 1530) "I pray you, good people, be not the worse to these men on my account, as though they were the authors of my death." [15]: 152 — Thomas Bilney, English Christian martyr (19 August 1531). While he awaited burning for heresy, the friars and people ...

  5. James Bedford - Wikipedia

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    LES offers to freeze free of charge the first person desirous and in need of cryogenic suspension." Bedford did not take this opportunity, however, but later used his own funds. Bedford suffered from kidney cancer that had later metastasized into his lungs, a condition that was untreatable at the time. [5] Bedford died in 1967 at 73 years old.

  6. Brock Chisholm - Wikipedia

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    Chisholm served as president of the World Federation of Mental Health (1957–58). [4] He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution. [14] [15] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation ...

  7. Thomas Stevens (cyclist) - Wikipedia

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    In 1884 he acquired a black-enameled Columbia 50-inch 'Standard' penny-farthing with nickel-plated wheels, built by the Pope Manufacturing Company of Chicago. He packed his handlebar bag with socks, a spare shirt, a raincoat that doubled as tent and bedroll, and a pocket revolver (described as a "bull-dog revolver", perhaps a British Bull Dog revolver) and left San Francisco at 8 o'clock on 22 ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    In the first year, no addict in the new model curriculum died from an overdose. Phoenix House, another giant in the treatment world, started out in the 1960s following the Synanon model. The New York City-based operation had previously used buprenorphine only sporadically for detoxing its opioid-addicted residents.

  9. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    The first person on Hart's list is the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Hart asserted that Muhammad was "supremely successful" in both the religious and secular realms, being responsible for both the foundations of Islam as well as the Early Muslim conquests uniting the Arabian Peninsula and eventually a wider caliphate after his death.